Amazonian cask-body: rituals of animation and celebration in the nugget city

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https://doi.org/10.5965/2595034702322025065

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body-mask, Amazonia, animation theatre, ritual, community

Abstract

colonial rite that merges body, living costume, and territory into a single animated entity. It introduces the concept of the Amazonian mask-body as a living sculpture and critical device that turns animation theatre into a gesture of purification, denunciation, and insurgent celebration. The practice-based research positions the Amazon as an epistemological and communal field of poetic and political resistance.

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José Raphael Brito dos Santos, Universidade Federal do Amapá

Actor, performer, director, and cultural producer. Graduated with a degree in Theatre Licentiate from the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA, 2012). Master's in Performing Arts from the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU, 2015). PhD candidate in Performing Arts at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA, since 2023), with a national doctoral exchange internship at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO, 2024). 

                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Karina Mateus da Silva, Universidade Federal do Amapá

She is an artist from Amapá, a mother, a Capoeira Angola practitioner, and a stilt walker (pernalta). She graduated with a degree in Theatre Licentiate from the Federal University of Amapá (2022), where she was an Extension scholarship holder for the Culture Program (PROCULT), serving as a theatre teacher for the open workshops and the 2018 school year classes at the UNIFAP Application School/EMEF Maria Luiza Bello da Silva. She received the Best Supporting Actress Award at the Curta Teatro Festival in 2018. She was a scholarship holder for the Pedagogical Residency Program at the Augusto Antunes State School in 2019. She was a member of the theatre group Trecos In Mundos, working as an actress, costume designer, stilt walker, director, and producer, from 2015 to 2019. She graduated from the School of Clowning (Escola de Palhaças) in São Paulo – Module I, 2019 – and completed the specialization course in Performing Arts at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia in 2021.

                                                                                                   

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2026-01-12

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SANTOS, José Raphael Brito dos; SILVA, Karina Mateus da. Amazonian cask-body: rituals of animation and celebration in the nugget city. Móin-Móin Magazine - Studies in the Art of Puppetry, Florianópolis, v. 2, n. 32, p. 65–86, 2026. DOI: 10.5965/2595034702322025065. Disponível em: https://revistas.udesc.br/index.php/moin/article/view/28039. Acesso em: 13 jan. 2026.

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Vol. 2 No. 32 (2025): The Stage of Celebration: Rituals, Festivities, and Community

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Dossiê Temático

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